armidale
9 photos tagged armidale, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.
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Opium field, Armidale, 1943 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded November 2023
Droving sheep, near Armidale from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded March 2011
Armidale School for Boys from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded March 2011
New England Girls School, Armidale from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded March 2011
Armidale from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded May 2010
Science block at the University of New England from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded July 2009
Armidale - swimming pool from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded June 2009
Logging at Armidale from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded September 2008
Railway Station - Armidale from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded June 2008
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Railway Station - Armidale
- Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
Armidale - swimming pool
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oldphart2 said:
I assume from the swimsuits that this is sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Certainly a long time before I visited this pool in the early 1970s
Opium field, Armidale, 1943
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Zaira Khan said:
awesome
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covid convict said:
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-451087871/view?sectionId=nla.obj-47974... - Pix, 8th January, 1944...'Poppyfield to Battlefield: Australia Makes Vital War Drug'...this pic appears on the the second page of the article, bottom rhs...
Pix's caption: 'Farmers Betty Tout and Dulcie Edwards walking through poppies growing 12 to the square foot. Miss Edwards is secretary of the WASPS. She ploughed poppy field, has now completed 800 acres.'
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1240639991/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1316... - the ABC Weekly, 11th December, 1943...'Australian girls grow opium poppies'...more on the cultivation of the crop here... -
Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
That's a really lovely photo, and I see Betty is in bare feet, although I think Dulcie is in proper work boots.
The owner of the property, Donald Munro Shand (1904-1976) of Armidale, has an entry in the ADB. Shand farmed 'Woodville', a 4000-acre (1619 ha) property at Puddledock, near Armidale. Apparently he set up Women's Agricultural Security Production Services groups, using female students from Teachers' College, Armidale.
Believing that Australia could not reach its potential without regional development, Shand became founding chairman of East-West Airlines Ltd in 1947. - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shand-donald-munro-11662
So it's possible that Dulcie and Betty went on the become school teachers after the War. -
Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
covid convict Thanks for those links, very interesting and useful!
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kinghitz said:
Presumably Armidale in the New England area of NSW …